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Each year, in an effort to express my gratitude for the good fortune that has come my way, I offer a free animated greeting card built in PowerPoint, to anyone who enjoys the cool things PowerPoint can do. This year's card features a happy Christmas...

As promised, here is a tutorial to create an animated sketch in PowerPoint. Follow these steps using PowerPoint 2013 on your Surface Pro (I have not tested this on other Windows 8 touch devices).
Download presentation here: http://wp.me/p1kyln-5W...

I recently ended up converting some text in a PowerPoint presentation to vector shapes after a major corporation discovered that, of the thousands of employees who were running PowerPoint 2010, there were a few stragglers on 2003 and some of the kerned text (kerned text...

This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This fifth tutorial focuses on inserting audio (music) into the slide.
Insert Audio In this slide we’ve added patriotic music to play as background...

Coming Soon. See the first three tutorials in this series by starting here.
This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This fourth tutorial focuses on drawing and animating the Star Columns shown below.
Create...

This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This second tutorial focuses on drawing and animating the Red Stars shown below.
Add small white stars over the red bars
Insert > Shapes > Stars...

This step-by-step series of tutorials will show you how to animate shapes and text to create a customizable patriotic slide with background music. This first tutorial focuses on drawing and animating the Red Bars shown below.
Create the red bars:
In this slide we’ve created two bars using rectangles...

I am flattered to have been invited to present at the 3rd Annual Outstanding Presentations Workshop, hosted by fellow MVP Ellen Finkelstein. I'm among six other MVP colleagues and Rick Altman, the annual Presentation Summit host, that make up this year's 8-week webinar series. Ellen...